Hugo Fjelsted Alroe (alroe@vip.cybercity.dk)
Tue, 7 Oct 1997 16:53:32 +0100
Gene:
>I agree with Hugo on usefulness of S/O tool, but would not call going
>beyond rationality as a step back. I feel guilty 'wasting' my time on art
>consumption, and playing sports as it is, and only in MoQ my rationality
>found some validation (or rationalization) for the needs.
Oh no, Gene, this is not what I intended, I am all for providing room for
all of our being and not restraining it in a rational jacket. My point was
that in a worldview where the choice is betweeen being rational or not,
without the in-betweens which a hierarchical view might provide, both of
those choices were very unsatisfying. I agree and I recognize your feelings
toward diminishing the role of rationality in ones personal life, because I
too have grown up in a rationalistic culture, and yet I am convinced it is
the only path towards a more true (in the broad sense, not the truth of
logic) worldview. Just like every other human I am torn between the
rational me and the social me and the organic me and even, knowing that I
will die, the inorganic no-longer-me. And it was not my intention to make
fun or anything of those who admire the buddha-nature and wish to move in
that direction, only to point out that *entirely* giving up the rational
self implies loosing much of that which is distintively human. This does
not mean that we should not move towards a more balanced view of our
rational self, and provide more room for the other aspects of ourselves - I
believe we must do that. At least this is how I see it from where I am now,
- I am prepared to be wrong and positive that I have overlooked important
aspects.
Hugo
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